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Amarian Miller
Amariah Miller is the Williamstown Head Start/Preschool primary student of the Week. She is is Pam Mullins preschool class.
“Amariah helps her teachers and her friends do jobs in the class and always comes in with a big smile.”
Favorite thing about school: play time.
Favorite book: Cat in the Hat.

Parents of Williamstown Jr./Sr. High students now can see what their students have for lunch everyday.

One of several recent food service changes allows parents to sign into the Parent Portal section of the website at www.williamstown.kyschools.us and click on the Food Service tab to see what their child is eating and how much money is left in their child’s account.

“It’s a great advantage,” said Stephanie Caldwell, district food service director. “I wish we would have had it years ago.”

The weather was perfect in Richmond, as nine marching band took to the field at the Madison Central Tournament of Bands on Sept. 17. For the first time this season, Grant County went head to head against another 4A band in preliminary competition. While the band didn’t capture the captions for percussion and guard in the preliminary round against John Hardin, they did win first in their class.

The Youth Performance Award winner for September is Grant County High School junior Kaira McKinnon. As a young woman of faith, she looks for opportunities to tell others about Jesus Christ through her church’s music ministry where she plays drums for the youth praise and worship bands at Family Worship Center.
She is the daughter of Tony and Kim McKinnon of Crittenden.

The parents roared and cheered as Grant County Marching Band was announced as Reserve Grand Champions at the 2011 Beechwood Festival of Bands on Sept. 10.

Earlier in the day, Grant County took to the field during preliminaries with their show “Video Killed the Radio Star,” as the only class in AAAA, but overall they were a close second behind Madison Central another 2010 State Finalist in AAAAA.

One at a time, eight outstanding bands took the field in finals competition, with Grant County slotted to go on at 9:30 p.m.

George “Kody” Thompson has accepted membership in The National Society of Collegiate Scholars (NSCS).

Thompson will be honored during an Induction Convocation this fall on the campus of Eastern Kentucky University.

“NSCS is more than just a symbol of academic achievement, said Stephen E. Loflin, NSCS CEO and founder. “Membership gives students access to a number of amazing benefits including career and networking resources, scholarships, travel and service projects both on campus and in the community.”